We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, and VMAX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Dell Technologies and others in Frame-Based Disk Arrays."With auto-tiering, it's easier to understand than most arrays, knowing that all of your writes go to the tier that you specify, with easy-to-create storage profiles."
"Everything is sub-5 MS for us. What I've found is that, with all-flash, when an app from my business is slow, I pretty much know it's them and not me. It leads to a performance conversation that has really hit an interesting threshold point where we are better than what they need. So now we get to have that "refactoring your application" conversation a lot quicker because now the performance on the infrastructure side isn't in question anymore."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The solution is stable."
"The interface is easy to use which makes the product user-friendly."
"The Dell support is helpful and the response is quick. The agents' knowledge is very good."
"Connecting it up, you can run it within a few hours."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to replicate. We are running a financial company and it needs to be available 24/7. We can't afford any downtime."
"The solution is very user-friendly in terms of maintenance and configuration. It's also possible to connect the solution to other storage management solutions."
"The most valuable features in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series are Shadowimage, easy to manage equipment, and upgrading the firewire is very simple."
"The solution provides excellent scalability."
"In terms of performance and ability, the product can stand up against its competitors since the solution offers two controller systems to users."
"The first thing that attracted this model to us was the non-disruptive migration. We had a very large database application that was on older gear and needed to be migrated to these arrays. We had experience with virtualizing behind an array and moving applications and data but this made it even better."
"There are no significant challenges in terms of scalability, and it can accommodate larger storage capacities compared to other storage solutions."
"The high performance of flash storage is especially valuable to us."
"Its resilience is the most valuable."
"It works with our replication technology, which is not SRDF, which is native replication technology."
"The interface is good, and it is also customizable."
"A rock solid foundation to deploy applications which cannot incur a disruption of service."
"We have been able to present storage from the VMAX to hosts without any problems."
"The most valuable features are the interface and performance."
"This solution is resilient."
"VMAX3 is our main system for storage. All our systems and all our virtualizations are connected to it. In terms of expanding it, we are replacing it with a new system, the PowerMax 2000. So our current VMAX3 platform will be decommissioned soon. We are switching to PowerMax 2000 because we are looking for improved performance. We see it as the best fit for our requirements in terms of the performance and the overall cost."
"We have never had a bad experience with it because we never had failures. It has good data availability and the performance is also okay."
"This product should be a lot more user-friendly."
"The ease of use could be improved. It took me a while to learn it."
"I don't think the solution is very scalable."
"In terms of additional features, I would like to see some kind of I/O meter, to indicate what we are using in terms of performance. I would like to see automation with that, where it would give me the trends. I want to know those things easily, to help me know where issues are going to occur."
"The price could be improved."
"The lack of reporting would be the main issue."
"We have seen some degraded throughput with mixed workloads. We have been working with Dell EMC to correct some of these latency issues."
"We can definitely see a need for it being a multi-controller system for customers who want to scale beyond the current capability. That's always a downside. A lot of the new systems are scaling vertically, they scale out, and the Compellent, of course, is controllers with shelves under it, so you don't scale out with it, unless you add another one. But if you do, they don't talk to each other, like some of the other solutions that we sell."
"For mission critical issues the performance is low."
"The user interface should be made simpler because it is difficult to manage."
"Hitachi should offer a distinct overview of the various storage choices."
"The controllers in the product do not provide options for scalability."
"The initial deployment was somewhat complex when it came to the installation because of the network connectivity. It was more difficult, in this specific case, than with other platforms."
"The user experience is pretty bad in Hitachi. A lot of mandatory tasks take a long time to work through."
"There is a drawback related to Hitachi's configuration flexibility. The Hitachi storage platform solution is not flexible. That means that both the Hitachi and the partner presale guys have to do a lot of work to design a solution."
"The complex setup, ease of use, and snapshot operations of this product need to be improved."
"Better speed to release new features that have become industry standards. EMC created so many standards in the past. Now, it seems they are playing a me-too game and lagging behind in some areas, specifically data reduction."
"The cluster support should be improved."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. That is the reason we are now currently we are looking for other solutions. That's the reason we are looking at AFF and Unity. We are also considering PowerStore."
"I would like to see support for high-availability."
"The way you configure larger size volumes needs improvement."
"I'd like to see improvements where we can scale out an existing array and remove older controllers\drives\etc., within the same subsystem."
"I would like this solution to integrate the solution that EMC vPlex offers."
"Resilience replication, reporting, and performance need to be improved."
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